It seems that you had really much trouble -- more than me in the last 3 years since I started using gEDA/PCB. Maybe you can make a summary of the most serious problems and someone can put that list in the wiki. Unintended use of M4 macros seems to be one of your problems, I had that problem long ago too, but I can not remember details. Best regards Stefan Salewski
I think the double footprint entries came either when I was fixing placeholder footprint strings with the correct file names and ended up with both the old and the new. But I am not sure if it happened in gschem, or more likely when doing a bulk re-edit in gattrib. At the very least, gattrib is not currently able to indicate double entries, let alone fix them. The next problem I found was connectors that were not connected in PCB when I had all rats displayed. Not until that moment was any error indicated, but it said that it was unable to attach rats for CONN pin 11, CONN pin 11, CONN pin 12, CONN pin 12, etc. It turns out that for some connectors, I put a space between 'CONN' and the number. This space then caused gnetlist to consider a whole bunch of small connectors as one big connector with lots of high numbered pins, PCB could no connect with rat lines because it had nothing matching. Perhaps the tutorial might be modified to remind people to never allow a space in the refdes attribute. Over 170 components to place now, then route the traces! Mike
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